KANCHANPUR: A fire broke out in the sugarcane field owned by Bamanuram Rana of Shuklaphanta Municipality-12, causing damage worth over Rs 300,000.

Sugarcane planted in ten kattha of land has been destroyed by the fire. Shuklaphanta-12 Ward Chair Nabal Singh Rana said that a fire broke out in Bamanuram Rana’s field yesterday evening while his neighbor Motiram Rana was burning sugarcane leaves in his nearby field.

About 500 quintals of sugarcane plant that was ready for harvest has been burnt,” said the victim Bamanura. The harvest was about to take place in the next two days, as permission for the same had been received from the sugar mill.

Local residents extinguished the fire.